A plan was already approved and to be implemented by Kesselring to take Malta but Rommel's insistance on having resources available of his push into Egypt and the losses during the Crete operation caused Hitler to do away with it.

Militarily, I would have gone with Kesselring's plan to invade and get it out of the way. The island was subdued by the bombing but this was only temporary. In my opinion, after the continuous bombing, an airbourne operation similar to the Crete operation would have been successful. Maybe the price may have been just as heavy but consider the effect on operations in the desert campaign.

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